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...three languages. Competence at the piano, drawing, dancing and sewing were required and so was excellence at swimming, riding and tennis. Father didn't ask the impossible, but he expected all of his children to be in the first ten in their classes at Packer Collegiate Institute. When Gulielma was too ill to do homework, she was told to maintain her standing by memorizing what went on in class. Father did not permit his womenfolk to wear corsets, because he held that the body, as well as the mind, should remain uncramped...
DEER CREEK (310 pp.)-Gulielma Fell Alsop-Vanguard...
...Gulielma Alsop* can remember when a nickel was a respectable weekly allowance for a little girl. When she went walking with her father, a Quaker who became an Episcopal minister, they were quite apt, as she now recalls it, to discuss such recondite matters as literary style and changing concepts of right & wrong. There were no Sunday papers "in that happy time which has since been called the Gay Nineties," but in the Alsop house in Brooklyn Heights there was a set period of meditation and contemplation called Searching Out the Heart. There was also a great deal...
...Family Eyes. To link their children with a passing generation, Gulielma's parents both wrote novels about their youth for family reading only. Their daughters have chosen to write for a larger public; Gulielma's sister, who writes under her pen name, Mary O'Hara, is the author of the best-selling My Friend Flicka and Thunderhead. Gulielma, whose third book is Deer Creek, studied medicine, spent four years in China as a medical missionary, has been staff physician at Manhattan's Barnard College for more than a quarter of a century...
...make Gulielma and Mary aware that the present was never static, their young minds were constantly fed new thought. Gulielma Alsop sharply remembers the evening my father looked up at me from his book...